A museum attached to a university in Maryland, the eastern United States, which is said to be the oldest dental university in the world. Special exhibitions of dentures and other items used in Japan from the Edo period to the Meiji period are held. Noted as a document.
The special exhibition is held at the National Dental Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, eastern United States, which is attached to the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, which is considered to be the oldest dental university in the world.
In the special exhibition, more than 200 dentures and the tools used to make them were collected from the Edo period to the Meiji period when an American dental product manufacturer visited Japan to develop the market at the end of the 19th century. I'm here.
Of these, dentures have teeth made of ivory or other materials embedded in a base that is hollowed out of wood to match the shape of the mouth. is not found in other regions.
In this museum, the actual dentures used by George Washington, the first president of the United States, around 1800 are displayed. used for parts.
Patrick Cutter of the National Dental Museum, who planned the special exhibition, said, ``It is a very valuable document that shows how much skilled craftsmanship was used to make dentures in Japan compared to other parts of the world.'' was